Edward Ka-spel - Trapped In Amber Does Edward Ka-spel need any introduction? Frontman of The Legendary Pink Dots, solo artist, member of Tear Garden and a fine man for fine music. On Korm Plastics we released the LP 'DNA Le Draw Dkee' a long time ago, and ever since Edward wanted to do another one. Here it is, a fine succesor to 'The Painted River of Regrets', two pieces of melancholic, ambient based music. Entirely instrumental. Cover design by Rutger Zuydervelt (Machinefabriek).
Listen to excerpt This LP is available for 25 euros including worldwide shipping. You can pay with paypal. Send an e-mail to order This package of goodments arrived in early December from the estimable Frans de Waard in Holland, representing four of the known current formats employed for musical transmission and also aspects of this tireless man's creative endeavours as a creator and publisher of sound art. Hearing the LP Trapped In Amber (PLINKITY PLONK PLINK 25) by Edward Ka-Spel turned out to be one of those 'light slowly dawning' experiences for this listener, a proposition that seemed unremarkable and unexciting at first which gradually revealed a wealth of interesting detail. Two side-long suites are the title track and 'Christmas On The Moon', each suite in turn made up perhaps of two or three separate compositions faded and stitched together with fine skill and craft. Ka-Spel, the principal force behind UK underground heroes The Legendary Pink Dots, fuses romantic piano playing, delicate synth melodies and unusual field recordings together into understated, complex works, which are very like (and I don't say this lightly) the soundtracks to imaginary films. Especially the first side, with its half-suggested narrative content. The second side has more than a tinge of Harmonium, Cluster and Tangerine Dream woven in amongst its fleeting beauties, while the first side with its street-sounds (dogs, children calling) suggesting a vaguely exotic foreign sunlit land, once again confirms my suspicion that Ka-Spel is becoming the next Paul Bowles, lounging around Tangiers in a white suit as he reflects ruefully on the tapestry of his past years. An extremely listenable and slow-paced LP results, rippled throughout with strange unknowable nostalgic moods. (From: http://www.thesoundprojector.com)
EDWARD KASPEL - TRAPPED IN AMBER (LP by Plinkity Plonk)
Trapped In Amber (plink 25, LP) ist ein besonders schönes Teil von EDWARD KA-SPEL, mit einem Titelstück, das die ganze A-Seite einnimmt, und dem ebenfalls seitenlangen ,Christmas On The Moon' auf der Rückseite. Elegischer Spieluhrklingklang weckt Kindheitsgefühle. Zunehmend traumhaft tremolieren Gitarrensaiten zu vagen Stimmen und Hundegebell weit im Hintergrund. Ein Synthiedrone webt sanft und wehmütig an zartbitterer Melancholie. Gedämpft verhallt kaskadierende Perkussion. Schritte, Stimmen, wie Erinnerungen an Spiele der Kindheit, in Bernstein erstarrt. Ka-Spel spinnt da ein weiteres Kapitel an einem Dreamscape, der wie ein Kabinett aus matten Spiegeln gegen unendlich geht: Dream Logik... Melancholics Anonymous... Saturn's Rings... The Painted River Of Regrets... Dream Loops... Zuletzt hört man eine Opernsängerin, wie aus älteren und schon nicht mehr nur persönlichen Erinnerungsschichten. Gewendet, verbreiten schnelles Ticken, Loopkreisel, eine Dröhnwelle und Pianoreveries lunare Weihnachtsstimmung. Als würden unermüdliche Rentiere schnell dahin traben, mit rasselnden Schellen, zu verwehtem Gesang. Davon bleiben nach einem Moment der Stille nur schleifende Geräusche, ein zittriger Orgelton und feines Echo des Pianos. Bis doch wieder der Synthie in Schwung kommt, motorisch und feierlich zugleich. Ich bin beeindruckt. (From: Bad Alchemy 65) |